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Cold cousin of the colloids

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  • Stephen Battersby

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The useful properties of high-temperature superconductors are impaired by magnetic flux lines, or vortices, which dissipate energy and so cause resistance — unless pinned in place. Video films of the vortices show that they move like particles in liquids that are subject to Brownian motion, staggering from one pinning site (a defect in the lattice) to another. This insight has allowed ready-made data analysis techniques to map the so-called ‘pinscape’ and could eventually help in exploiting natural pinning to improve the performance of superconducting devices.

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  • Stephen Battersby, 1998. "Cold cousin of the colloids," Nature, Nature, vol. 392(6677), pages 660-660, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:392:y:1998:i:6677:d:10.1038_33558
    DOI: 10.1038/33558
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